“I don’t feel like we were trying to do a new Cream”: Legendary guitarist Robin Trower on the ’80s supergroup he created with Jack Bruce

Robin Trower and Jack Bruce photographed circa 1980, just before they would collaborate on BLT.

Is it too much to say that Robin Trower, Jack Bruce and Bill Lordan’s 1980 all-star collaboration, BLT, is a stone-cold blues-rock classic? Maybe. But we can definitely call it a minor classic, ripe for rediscovery.

Here you have a power trio featuring Bruce, one of the format’s chief architects, on bass and vocals, the former Cream frontman’s very presence inviting comparisons to his promethean work with Messrs Clapton and Baker at the tail-end of the ‘60s. Lordan had played in Trower’s solo band, but had also racked up credits in Gypsy and Sly And The Family Stone.